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Just a small update on the Archon I'm working on. He'll be the third and final HQ I need to add to my force to be able to run all three cabal/cult/coven in a unified force. Painting him in pieces as he'd be a major PITA to paint as an assembled model. Doing some minor conversion work too to give him a bit of character, I find the base Archon model to be dreadfully boring. Hope you guys like what you see so far.

Wow, looking very promising!
Interested to see how he turns out. I share your opinion about the base model.
I don't have any Archons yet (the whole army is a mess atm), but I hope to get some inspiration from yours.

That archon is coming along nicely, and the little touches do make a difference.

Say what you want about the old dark eldar, they didn't lack for character

I'm really liking your DEs as a whole - the palette is great, and the flayed effect on the athocyst is pretty spectacular. Gotta start working my way backwards through the rest of the blog!

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@Ezki Thank you very much for your comment. I feel the model is nicely detailed and has many nice features but man the pose is just the worst thing imaginable. Hopefully I can do a good enough job on this guy to inspire you to knock yours out of the park.

@tzurk Welcome to the PLog, happy to have you aboard! The old DE characters had tons of character (just bad armour design in my opinion). Hopefully you enjoy the rest of the PLog, if you have any questions about past things I've done feel free to ask, I'm always happy to share whatever I've learned throughout the years to give others inspiration.

@Nevelon Thanks Nev, glad you like him so far. The legs are getting close to completion, working my way up on this model as he'd be a nightmare to paint fully assembled.

@youwashock Thanks for the kind words dude, I tried the flayed flesh once as an experiment not thinking I'd really ever use it again but here I am looking for more models I can use it on. It's been a fun technique to learn and I'm very much enjoying the results.

Managed to finish off the legs, just some silver highlights over my last update. The torso is well underway while the sword arm and head are done (except for a bit of 'ardcoat on the drug tubes for the head I suppose). Shouldn't be too much longer and I'll have an Archon finally ready to join the ranks of my DE.